Chapter 371: Chapter 86 Behind the Scenes_2
Li Fei was just guessing at this point:
“So the person behind you is Yan Shijin, the entire investigation team? Or is it soone even higher up? It couldn’t be the Inspector of Feng Province, could it?”
Pfft—
Feng Sanniang suddenly spurted out a mouthful of fresh blood.
“Is that really it?!”
Now it was Li Fei’s turn to be shocked.
He had made a casual guess without giving it much thought, not expecting it to elicit such a strong reaction from Feng Sanniang.
The Inspector of Feng Province, the highest official of a province, a Fifth Rank cabinet official, truly a Governor!
If the mastermind was soone of this level, no wonder Feng Sanniang had scoffed at Li Fei’s previous words.
Although Datong Prefecture had a Wuda, so a joke circulated within the official circles of Feng Province, claiming that the Garrison Commander of Datong Prefecture wouldn’t trade his position even for an Inspector!
But in reality, the power that an Inspector of a province could marshal was indeed stronger than that of a Garrison Commander like Bian Jingru.
After all, Bian Jingru couldn’t fully command Wuda to act on his own behest.
Feng Sanniang looked at Li Fei with complicated eyes.
She hadn’t expected Li Fei to deduce so much just from a few words she said.
She endured the pain with difficulty and spoke with effort:
“Even if you know the truth, it’s aningless. The situation has been set, and you can’t change anything.”
Li Fei: “Since the situation has been set, why don’t you tell more? Since I can’t change anything anyway.”
Feng Sanniang: “…”
She was silent for a mont, before slowly saying:
“On the day Yan Shijin was assassinated, he personally vindicated you, clearing your na from the wanted list. After capturing Shangguan Xiao, the investigation team did not implicate you in the case, which is a clear sign of their overtures. Do you really need to fight against those high officials to the bitter end for just one woman? Even the Iron Blade Sect has been annihilated, if you continue to stand in their way, it’s like trying to stop a car with your arm!”
She began to try to persuade Li Fei.
The Green-faced Ghost, as Shangguan Xiao’s apparent ally, was indeed the most likely to be implicated after her troubles.
However, the investigation to this point had not affected either Green-faced Manor, having changed its na, or the Qingyuan City Managent Company of Xing City.
This was a very evident show of goodwill.
Unfortunately, these people didn’t know that the Green-faced Ghost was not just the Green-faced Ghost.
Li Fei looked at Feng Sanniang and continued to ask: “The setup in the provincial capital can’t just be for revenge against Hao Yi. What is their real purpose?”
He had reviewed Hao Yi’s files and learned in detail about those events more than thirty years ago.
Many enemies Hao Yi had made back then were indeed now in the provincial capital. It was logically plausible that soone there wanted revenge.
But Li Fei’s experience from his previous life had deeply ingrained in him that politics was the dirtiest thing in the world, filthier even than a prostitute’s crotch!
Political creatures are inhumane.
Positions determine choices, interests determine motives.
If the people behind the scenes were really led by the Inspector of Feng Province, a group of bigwigs from the provincial capital, then there was no way they had set up such a plot just for revenge against Hao Yi.
There had to be huge interests behind it!
Feng Sanniang saw that Li Fei was still searching for the truth and had no signs of giving up, she also recognized his determination.
However, she had a resolve that was no less firm than Li Fei’s, and so said nothing.
Li Fei quietly waited for dozens of minutes until the poison’s effects were at their peak. Then, taking advantage of her greatest pain, he launched another “Blood Power,” interrogating as before.
But this ti he still couldn’t force out any new information; Feng Sanniang only kept repeating ‘All of the Zhang Family should die’ subconsciously.
After the interrogation, Feng Sanniang was nearing death.
She had been seriously injured by Li Fei, poisoned, and subjected to several full-powered “Blood Powers,” indeed she was almost at her limit.
Li Fei, having no choice, administered the antidote to her.
As the effects of the poison were resolved and the pain began to fade, Feng Sanniang regained so clarity.
She looked up at Li Fei: “Are you still not planning to kill ? Do you actually expect to testify for you and help overturn Shangguan Xiao’s case?”
Li Fei was silent.
Given the willpower and determination Feng Sanniang had exhibited, the likelihood of her testifying seed almost nil.
Seeing Li Fei’s silence, Feng Sanniang pleaded:
“Can you grant a swift end?”
Li Fei slowly stood up and drew the Ghost Slash Blade, “Alright.”
He was ultimately not a man who took pleasure in tornting his enemies.
“…Datong Prefecture has a charity institution called the Honor and Grace Court.”
Feng Sanniang suddenly spoke up.
Li Fei was ready to swing his blade, but it imdiately paused.
“This is a place where the Governnt distributes welfare to the people. The Honor and Grace Court regularly takes out money to help the widowed and orphaned, as well as those seriously ill.”
Feng Sanniang continued,
“Perhaps the initial intention was good, but gradually, this place beca a tool for the bigwigs to show off. Yu Longqing, whom you killed, was the charity ambassador of the Datong Prefecture’s Honor and Grace Court.”
“But showing off is one thing; at least these people really did donate money. The most detestable are those who use their authority to line their own pockets and exploit the common people.”
“Many years ago, a mother whose children both had serious illnesses had already lost her husband. She was at her wits’ end to save her children, so she went to the Honor and Grace Court for help. The person in charge of disbursing money for dical aid hinted to this mother that if she was willing to offer herself to him, he would give priority to giving the money to her.”
“For the sake of her children, the mother agreed. However, after accompanying that man for a month, she still had not received the money. As her two children were close to death, in her desperation she went to the Honor and Grace Court and made a scene, blowing the situation wide open.”
“In the end, to quell public outrage, the Honor and Grace Court gave the mother so money and fired that man.”
“That man was the scion of a prominent family, sent to the Honor and Grace Court only to gild his resu in preparation for future promotion. But now, with such a scandal, not only had his reputation been lost, but his future prospects were also affected. Furious, he waited a while before taking people to break into the mother’s house.”
“He… in front of the two children, he raped the mother to death… The mother’s son was beaten to death in the conflict trying to protect her. In the end, there was only a daughter left, who was then sold into a brothel by that man…”
Feng Sanniang spoke of this story with eyes nearly dead with quietness.
Li Fei listened silently.
He spoke slowly, “That scion, was he from the Zhang Family? Who was he? What was his na?”
Feng Sanniang sneered, “He’s already dead.”
“Do you think that is not enough, that you need to take revenge on the entire Zhang Family?”
Li Fei asked.
“Should I not?!” Feng Sanniang retorted sharply, “They enjoy the glory and wealth brought by the Zhang Family, receiving the sa blessings as those beasts, so naturally, they should descend into Hell with those beasts as well!”
Li Fei did not comnt, rely asking,
“Why tell all this?”
Feng Sanniang looked into his eyes,
“I know about the things you once did in Xing City. I want you to understand that what you’re doing now does not represent justice!”
“Is there anything else you want to say?”
Li Fei asked her, gazing back calmly.
Feng Sanniang smiled tragically, “I regret nothing I’ve done!”
“Alright.”
Li Fei nodded.
Then he swung his blade across the ‘Queen’s’ neck.
With this, two of Datong Prefecture’s ‘Seven Kings’ had died under Li Fei’s blade.
Feng Sanniang’s eyes were still wide open with resentnt even in her dying monts.
Li Fei crouched down, gently closed her eyes with his hand, and whispered,
“I never believed myself to be a representative of justice.”
…
Under the sa night sky, at the Datong Prefecture guesthouse.
Yan Shijin had already received news that the Green-faced Ghost had captured Feng Sanniang.
So he convened a eting with the entire investigative team’s officials overnight.
“This Green-faced Ghost, give him so respect, and he doesn’t take it.”
“Looks like we can’t win him over.”
“He’s captured Feng Sanniang, but it’s useless. The ga has co to this stage; the next move will be checkmate!”
Yan Shijin pounded the table decisively.
…
Seeking monthly ticket
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